Audio-GD

Why must it be so hard to get good sound :-(

 

Because people want convenience, in addition ...
USB brought just that, along with poor sound quality (until recently, or few years ago, after spending 1.5k on an Offramp-5 ...)

 

Good sound was what great sound used to be, until the next wave hit. Gungnir Multibit sounds great Spdif because it was designed that way. Though you know, the wyred4sound recovery is pretty good too. Spdif is great, spun CDs from great transport can be great, but pricey. There is no endgame for digital worth keeping a half life of Moore's Law, so far.

 

Guys I was wondering if anyone here had heard the nfb 15. It goes for $250(excluding shipping), so maybe $325 or more after shipping/taxes to US.
"32bit / 384K Asynchronous Transfer USB-32 Chip Built in 2 Pieces Hi-end grade WM8741 Chips
And
Output power(Only for headphone):3500mW/25 ohm, 1800mW/50 ohm, 900mW/100 ohm, 300mW/300 ohm, 150mW/600 ohm"
Seems pretty darn good for a amp/dac combo at $250 with a supposedly warmer than neutral but not too gooye/dark/thick sound signature.
What do you guys think?

 

AGD has designed a custom (discrete?) r2r modules, perhaps to start taking the place of the pcm1704uk that has been used for so long now. (which i'm guessing is a good thing to a lot of people who seem to not care for the sound of the 1704). I just noticed on their site the release of their first dac using these modules, Singularity 19. I'm pretty interested to hear what these things sound like.

Dedicated Discrete R2R DAC
Fully programmable hardware design ,support future upgrade without hardware modifyBuilt in 4 PCs 3072KHz support R-2R DA M1 modules32bit / 384K Amanero combo384
Supports up to 384KHz /32Bitat USB
Supports up to 192KHz /24Bitat SPDIF

Promotion : (Exclude shipping cost)
Built in 2 pcs DA M1 : USD600
Built in 4 pcs DA M1 : USD650

The new custom DA-M1: http://www.audio-gd.com/Pro/diy/DA01/DA01EN.htm

Singularity 19: http://www.audio-gd.com/Master/Singularity19/Singularity 19EN.htm

Hoping to start hearing some informed impressions.

 

So he wasn't lying about PC1704 stock this time!

 

Interesting. I'll have to keep an eye on this.

 

Im interested in what the price will be for a Master 7 or Singularity 7 using these modules. If I recall correctly, the last DAC 19 with 1704 chips was around $150 more than this new one.